richardxia

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by richardxia 4y ago
Scheme has the lambda special form, predating Python by decades, and its version also allows for multiple parameters in a non-curried way. SICP served as a classical textbook in computer science for multiple generations of students, so I th
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by richardxia 5y ago
There is a class of hashes known as locality-sensitive hashes, which are designed to preserve some metric of "closeness". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
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by richardxia 5y ago
Was going to post the exact same thing. I make use of this repeated git blame method all the time, and for everyone who is just learning this for the first time, you'll actually want to write `git blame <commit>~` to go back one
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by richardxia 5y ago
I've had some success using it in a Django app where I generate a whitelist from my main branch, and then I run vulture on my feature branch just before I open up a pull request. This way, it doesn't matter how many false positive
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by richardxia 5y ago
If your company allows for it, you can early exercise and file a 83(b) election so that even as your options vest over time, you only pay taxes for the spread between your strike price and the fair market value at the date of the early exer
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by richardxia 6y ago
You don't even need to leave this planet to find and example of this. In East Asia, red symbolizes prosperity, and the stock market tickers use red to indicate gains.
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by richardxia 6y ago
They do for crypto-to-crypto trades :)
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by richardxia 7y ago
I would be a little bit careful. I don't know if there's a risk of counterfeiting, but I once bought what I thought was supposed to be a US region Moto X2 but instead got a European region one. The most important difference, besid
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by richardxia 7y ago
While I'm not 100% against humor in a codebase, ever since my company started hiring more engineers internationally, I've become more tuned in to whether a name that uses slang like "yoinker" will be understood by someon
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by richardxia 9y ago
Linux-capable hardware will be coming out this year.
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by richardxia 9y ago
Not exactly like HN, but http://hackaday.com focuses on small hardware projects and news.